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 We are a locally owned, independent bookstore with thousands of titles waiting to be plucked from the shelves. Come down and visit us for an afternoon or even a few minutes. It's amazing how quickly you can get lost in the shelves when things keep jumping out at you!
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Celebrate Valentine's Day with a Little Help from Auntie's
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Event Highlights
Listed below are a few of our great upcoming events. Visit our event calender for complete listings.
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and The Virgin of Bennington. Exploring the spiritual life, her work is at once intimate and historical, rich in poetry and meditations, brimming with exasperation and reverence, deeply grounded in both nature and spirit, sometimes funny, and often provocative. (http://www.barclayagency.com/norris.html)
Mark your calendar for March 6th, 2:00 pm to attend this special event, followed by a booksigning, with Kathleen Norris. This popular writer returns to Auntie's to discuss her latest book, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life. Paperback edition ($16.00) due on March 1st. Prepay and get 15% off your reserved copy! Call 509-838-0206 for details.
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Friday, Feb. 5th, 7:00 pm
Sponsored by EWU’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers, poet John Rybicki presents new and favorite poems including selections from his book, We Bed Down into Water.
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Friday, Feb. 26th, 7:00 pm
EWU professor Jonathan Johnson presents his latest collection of poems, In the Land We Imagined. In a recent review, Nancy Eimers says of these poems, “In them, imagination is a migratory instinct that leads across a vast home range of shorelines, northern forests and companionable sidewalks to find ample reason for gratitude and the grace to inhabit the moment as it passes away.”
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Notable Books of 2009
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Local author Jess Walter continues to amaze readers with his fast paced prose, dark humor and knack for storytelling. Checkout his latest book and see why it has made several critics top ten list for 2009. The Financial Lives of the Poets explores the fall of the American newspaper and life amidst the housing crisis as Matthew Prior, an unemployed journalist, struggles to save his marriage, his house and ultimately himself. Desperate measures in desperate times makes for a page turning read in this exciting new novel. |
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Set 400 years in the past and in Elizabethan England, this mini series is very familiar to comic readers, but extremely different at the same time. We see all our favorite Marvel heroes, but it's mind blowing. With terrific art and an eccentric and intriguing storyline this title is a neccessity. This re-released graphic novel (originally released in 2007 but brought back this year) by super geek of all things fantastic and weird, Neil Gaiman, is a must-have for anyone serious about graphic novels but appropriate for newbee's to the genre. |
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Former Amazon editor Langdon Cook weaves a story of foraging in the Pacific Northwest. A great book for anyone interested in sustainability and living off the land. Cook describes his hard won bounty with such passion and fervor along with hard won recipies to enjoy your treats. A must read for anyone in the Pacific Northwest and a true emerging talent. |
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This follow-up to the Hunger Games is as compulsively readable as the first book. You will find yourself staying up until the wee hours of the morning just to read it in one sitting. The story immediately sucks you in and holds you captive until the very end.
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This fictional account of Jeannette Walls' no nonsense maternal Grandmothers life as a hardworking rancher- just to name one of her many passions- is just as compelling as The Glass Castle. Sure to be read for many years to come. |
| Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Finkel chronicles the work of the Second Battalion, Sixteenth Infantry Regiment, during a 14-month tour in Iraq. This hard look at American soldiers during the 2007 surge on Iraq shows how war both affects and ruins good soldiers. |
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If your kids love the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, they are sure to eat up Dork Diaries. Aimed at girls, the protagonist, Nikki Maxwell, a self-proclaimed dork, takes the reader through the horrific ups and downs of middle school. Look for the highly anticipated sequel in June.
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| Jonathan Lethem is continuing to make himself known as a formidable force in fiction. In his eigth novel he create his own surreal urban landscape in a future Manahattan, where its residents can opt for a 'war free edition' of the New York Times, amongst other differences in this off kilter world. The prose is amazing, with a hint of magical realism. If you've never read Jonathan Lethem start with Motherless Brooklyn then quickly pickup Chronic City. |
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| Mary Karr's first memoir, The Liar's Club, has been a longtime favorite of book lovers around the world. Her follow up memoir Cherry also received critical success and now her third memoir, Lit, picks up where the previous books left off. Lit delves into her own alcoholic struggles and the fight to return from the brink. Mary Karr's writing sings on the page despite the difficult subject matter and she continues to impress with her brutal honesty. Yet another homerun for a very talented author. |
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| Tired of vampires, werewolves and the hype surroundiing these themed books? Then pickup this highly entertaining spoof on the Twilight series and laugh along side Edwart and the pasty girl Belle Goose that loves him...maybe...well at least she's pretty sure...kind of... |
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National Book Awards Announced
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